Over a dozen SJB MPs, Maithripala skip vote By Shamindra Ferdinando In spite of differences between President Ranil Wickremesinghe and...
… condemns govt. move, finds fault with Office of AG for failing to ensure justice for Easter Sunday victims The...
The aid group Doctors Without Borders has reported recovering 11 bodies and rescuing dozens of people off the coast of...
Nuwan Thushara’s last over brought Sri Lanka screaming back into the match,as he first bowled Rishad Hossain, and then nailed...
Afghanistan boosted their Super Eight chances with yet another dominating win, this time thumping New Zealand by 84 runs in...
The Associate has struck twice in two days. Group C and D might have been the groups of death leading...
Since 2015, no team has been more successful in making it to the knockout stages of a World Cup than...
It’s been a rough start for cricket in New York with more focus on the pitches than the cricket that...
Minister of State for Sports and Youth Affairs, Rohana Dissanayake, during a press conference held today (07) at the Presidential...
Scotland produced a stunning run chase to beat Namibia by five wickets in the T20 World Cup 2024. Returning to...
USA muzzled an experienced Pakistan top order, brought their hitters to heel, then produced a measured batting performance that tied...
Marcus Stoinis and David Warner extricated Australia from an uncertain position in their T20 World Cup 2024 opener against Oman...
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by Liyanage Amarakeerthi Text of Speech made at at a function held on August 9, 2023 to celebrate the handing over to Professor Gananath Obyesekere’s personal...
A second Trump term poses intrinsic dangers everywhere by Kumar David If ethnic confrontation (the national-question, Sinhala-Tamil animosity, call it what you will) is ever going...
Sanasa General Insurance, Sri Lanka’s leading and trusted insurance company, recently declared its 80th branch open in Kurunegala. The new branch, located at No. 7/A, South...
by Gamini Peiris This article is written to evoke and revive the memory of two outstanding gentlemen who were responsible for the establishment of Sevanagala sugar...
But China is not in a position to defend any of the eight bases it might set up in the next two to five years, the...
Remembering a great Thomian Teacher on his 56th death anniversary (Republishing an article which appeared in The Island 7/03/14) The excitement of “big school” was tangible....
(Excerpted from volume ii of the Sarath Amunugama autobiography) In fact it was Rajiv who made an attempt to break the logjam The Parathasarathy proposals had...
by Vijaya Chandrasoma (Written in February 2019) My old friend, Lalith ended his brief journey on this planet last week. He has, over the past 70+...
(Excerpted from the Merrill Fernando autobiography) Infrequently, my preoccupation with my personal business was disrupted by unexpected but welcome interruptions, in the form of foreign travel...
I first met T Malli in the basketball court of St Sebastian’s College. I was the coach yet did not know how to tell him politely...
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds” That pronouncement, translated from the Bhagavad Gita and quoted by the creator of the atom bomb as...
(Excerpted from Memories that linger: My Journey in the World of Disability by Padmani Mendis) Barbara McNamee was from Jamaica. She became my friend when we...
